Do you feel like watching something cerebral? This overview contains all Netflix movies and series in the cerebral genre and is updated with new releases daily. Currently, the best rated title in this category, with a rating of 4.5, is Downton Abbey.
3.86
An ambitious prospector strikes it rich and turns a simple village into a boomtown, stoking the ire of a charismatic young preacher.
5 October 2017 | Movie | 2007 | 158 minutes
Actors:
Daniel Day-Lewis,
Ciarán Hinds,
Kevin J. O'Connor,
Paul Thomas Anderson,
David Warshofsky,
David Willis,
Paul Dano,
Russell Harvard,
Dillon Freasier,
Sydney McCallister,
Colton Woodward
A gay movie director finds himself on both sides of the camera, blurring the line between his real sex life and erotic filmmaking.
28 September 2017 | Movie | 2014 | 122 minutes
Actors:
Julián Hernández,
Gabino Rodríguez,
Hugo Catalán,
Andrea Portal,
Alan Ramírez,
Emilio von Sternerfels,
Rocío Reyes,
Iván Álvarez,
Gloria Contreras,
Gerardo Del Razo,
Aladino R. Blanca
This is the astonishing true story behind a moment in TV history: the live 1961 broadcast of Nazi mass-murderer Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem.
31 August 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 96 minutes
Actors:
Anthony LaPaglia,
Nicholas Woodeson,
Martin Freeman,
Rebecca Front,
Andy Nyman,
Vaidotas Martinaitis,
Paul Andrew Williams,
Ben Lloyd-Hughes,
Dylan Edwards,
Ben Addis,
Ed Birch,
Zora Bishop,
Caroline Bartleet,
Nathaniel Gleed
On the run from authorities, a troubled man recalls the mysterious events -- and the strange drifter -- that inspired his unusual transformation.
31 August 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 97 minutes
Actors:
Nicholas Pryor,
DJ Qualls,
Lin Shaye,
Toby Huss,
Mark Kelly,
Teresa Yenque,
Rami Malek,
Sandra Ellis Lafferty,
Kate Lyn Sheil,
Sarah Adina Smith,
Bruce Bundy,
Sukha Belle Potter
Icons of '60s counterculture, Harvard psychologists Timothy Leary and Ram Dass became estranged until an illness inspired their fascinating reunion.
31 August 2017 | Documentaries | 2016 | 95 minutes
Unhappy with his commercial film work, a jaded Hollywood actor moves to Argentina to participate in an experimental thesis on social philosophy.
17 August 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 94 minutes
A linguist charged with finding a way to communicate with aliens that have landed on Earth uncovers a connection with meaning for mankind and herself.
2 August 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 116 minutes
After waking next to his now-dead lover in a hotel room, a young businessman hires a prominent lawyer to figure out how he ended up a murder suspect.
3 July 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 105 minutes
When a Chilean policeman vows to find and capture leftist poet Pablo Neruda, a game of cat and mouse ensues that tests both their wills.
3 July 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 107 minutes
This documentary follows the journey of cellist Yo-Yo Ma's ensemble, a group of more than 50 artists who broaden musical horizons around the world.
3 July 2017 | Documentaries | 2015 | 95 minutes
3.55
On the day of the NFL player draft, Cleveland general manager Sonny Weaver trades up to get the first pick, with unexpected consequences.
3 July 2017 | Movie | 2014 | 105 minutes
Actors:
Rosanna Arquette,
Ellen Burstyn,
Kevin Costner,
Sam Elliott,
Frank Langella,
Ivan Reitman,
Jennifer Garner,
Denis Leary,
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs,
Terry Crews,
Chadwick Boseman
An African American Gullah family leaves their coastal island home in 1902 and risks losing their culture to start a new life on the U.S. mainland.
15 June 2017 | Movie | 1991 | 112 minutes
Actors:
Kaycee Moore,
Cora Lee Day,
Tommy Redmond Hicks,
Cornell Royal,
Julie Dash,
Cheryl Lynn Bruce,
Bahni Turpin,
Alva Rogers,
Adisa Anderson,
Trula Hoosier,
Barbarao
This documentary follows former Palestinian and Israeli soldiers, tired of endless war, who form a group advocating peace through nonviolent action.
8 June 2017 | Documentaries | 2016 | 86 minutes
3.35
This program examines new questions and doubts raised by recent DNA and ballistic evidence about Adolf Hitler's death and final resting place.
2 June 2017 | Documentaries | 2011 | 87 minutes
Explore how Caesar, Napoleon, Mussolini, Hitler and modern-day dictators consolidated their considerable power through bold and brazen coups.
2 June 2017 | Documentaries | 2017 | 47 minutes
After spotting a dead body in the ocean, a boy begins to question strange occurrences and mysterious medical procedures conducted in his seaside town.
9 May 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 81 minutes
A Hollywood screenwriter battles insecurity as he struggles to adapt The Orchid Thief -- a book about a mercurial orchid poacher named John Laroche.
3 May 2017 | Movie | 2002 | 115 minutes
Actors:
Nicolas Cage,
Brian Cox,
Ron Livingston,
Meryl Streep,
Tilda Swinton,
Judy Greer,
Chris Cooper,
Spike Jonze,
Cara Seymour,
Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Jay Tavare
This biopic tells the story of Margaret Keane, the American painter who was known for her pop art paintings of children with large doe eyes.
28 April 2017 | Movie | 2014 | 106 minutes
A young boy growing up in France while his diplomat father helps to draft the Treaty of Versailles starts to go astray in unsettling ways.
20 April 2017 | Movie | 2015 | 115 minutes
A scientist whose proof of an afterlife caused a rash of suicides forges ahead with his research, while his disapproving son falls for a troubled woman.
13 April 2017 | Movie | 2017 | 102 minutes
4.15
In this gripping Emmy-nominated miniseries, a baroness trying to forge new ties between Israelis and Palestinians stirs up international intrigue.
4 April 2017 | Show | 2014
Actors:
Stephen Rea,
Janet McTeer,
Tobias Menzies,
Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Lindsay Duncan,
Paul Herzberg,
Lubna Azabal,
Igal Naor,
Eve Best,
Genevieve O'Reilly,
Andrew Buchan,
Katherine Parkinson,
Philip Arditti,
Martin Hutson,
Reeve Fletcher,
George Georgiou,
Nicole Lopes
A senior investment banker must fight for her survival when scandal swirls around her handling of a tech company's high-profile IPO.
4 April 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 100 minutes
Actors:
Craig Bierko,
James Naughton,
James Purefoy,
Anna Gunn,
Lee Tergesen,
David Alan Basche,
Carrie Preston,
Alysia Reiner,
Nate Corddry,
Sarah Megan Thomas,
Samuel Roukin,
Nick Gehlfuss,
Meera Menon
The cast, producers and mental health professionals discuss scenes dealing with difficult issues, including bullying, depression and sexual assault.
4 April 2017 | Documentaries | 2017 | 29 minutes
Actors:
Kate Walsh,
Tom McCarthy,
Derek Luke,
Dylan Minnette,
Miles Heizer,
Selena Gomez,
Alisha Boe,
Justin Prentice,
Christian Navarro,
Brian Yorkey,
Katherine Langford,
Brandon Flynn,
Jay Asher,
Alexis Jones,
Mandy Teefey,
Dr. Helen Hsu,
Dr. Rebecca Hedrick,
Dr. Rona Hu
Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi turns his eye to his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Rome's giant ring road.
23 March 2017 | Documentaries | 2013 | 91 minutes
Based on the audio diaries of academic and theologian John Hull, this film offers an impressionistic re-creation of his slow descent into blindness.
23 March 2017 | Documentaries | 2016 | 86 minutes
3.30
When a mass of skeletons are found in a shallow grave, cutting-edge forensics and ancient texts tell a story of greed, betrayal and retribution.
17 March 2017 | Documentaries | 2011 | 44 minutes
Roger Guenveur Smith gives voice to the man at the center of the brutal police beating that helped fuel the 1992 LA riots. Spike Lee directs.
17 March 2017 | Movie | 2017 | 52 minutes
To escape his parents and the Korean War draft, Jewish atheist Marcus attends a rigid Christian college, where he faces bigotry and sexual repression.
9 March 2017 | Movie | 2016 | 111 minutes
3.50
When a drug dealer in Tokyo is shot in a police raid, his spirit leaves his body in a hallucinatory odyssey that merges his past, present and future.
2 March 2017 | Movie | 2009 | 161 minutes